A fun an interactive way for children to assess themselves or each other. Children can be prompted to think about questions they could be asked in a text conversation to enable them to share their learning in a deeper way. Taking on the role of the asker and answerer needs the children to think of both sides of coin - learning and sharing the learning.

Vary your Halloween display with these fun and creative guides to help your learners design witches, monsters and pumpkins. There is plenty of scope for personalisation and choice. If you use these, I would love to see some of the results. You can share them with me on Twitter at @InTechnicolour or on Instagram at @TeachingInTechnicolour. You can also email me at teachingintechnicolour@gmail.com Please don’t remove the watermarks. I hope your learners love using them!

Display poster for Moonlit Evergreen artwork. Example of work can be found on Teaching in Technicolour instagram!

Simple format for festive writing activities. Children can use these templates to practice their spelling during Christmas time.

Rather than focus on a “New Year, New Me” … why not explore a “New Year, Healthiest Me” by focusing on what you can and can’t control! We all hope that our years are straight forward and carefree but as we know, life can throw us curve balls so being equipped with strategies to support your emotional regulation can help us deal with these unexpected difficulties better. This resources includes: Planning Sheet Examples and strategies Learning Intention and Success Criteria Model piece of writing List of words to describe the year ahead Bunting template

Simple lettering to display in class with an important message.

Lettering for the Skyscraper Sundae display. Examples can be found on my Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour Thanks for downloading my resource :)

A simple template to colour your own chessboard to play on and to use the skills of summarisation to explain the rules to a friend. For more examples, check my Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour Thank you for using my resource :) Nicholas

Linked with the SDGs and maths, this resource allows children to work on their data handling by inputting the names of the litter they find, tallying and then turning to number form. There is space for a new bin design and linked imaged to the sustainable development goals. For more examples, check my Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour Thank you for using my resource :) Nicholas

A lovely way to help next years teacher get to know their class. Complete with your class and then hand over at your transition meeting, so that next years teacher can get to know them. Display for them coming in August so they know you value them and want to keep getting to know them. Also a wee template for you to fill one out too! :) As always, find me on twitter at @InTechnicolour or insta @TeachingInTechnicolour

All of the main points from the animated short film, ‘The Snowman’. This can be used to help children write detailed recounts of the film. Each of the bold bulletpoints signal time to start a new paragraph. Examples of this work can be found on the instagram account of Teaching and Technicolour. If you’d like to share examples of your use of this resource it would be much appreciated. You can do this by posting to instagram @TeachingInTechnicolour Or on Twitter @InTechnicolour or by email teachingintechnicolour@gmail.com All resources are created by Nicholas McMahon and watermark should not be removed when used.

A really nice way to help structure list writing of different phonemes within the same sound family.

This is a diary entry in the style of The Grinch. A writing lesson in first person narrative that also embeds skills of summarising. It is a great way to focus on the true meaning of Christmas and the importance of love, kindness, connection and community. Examples of writing can be found on instagram at @TeachingInTechnicolour If you’d like to share examples of your work, you can email me with the address - teachingintechnicolour@gmail.com or on Twitter @InTechnicolour Thanks, Nicholas

A fun way to find out more about your children, their music preferences and the emotions and memories that their music choice evokes. Examples as always on Teaching In Technicolour Instagram page Share examples with me at my Twitter page @InTechnicolour or on Instagram